Lisa Pruitt publishes article in the Maine Law Review
RSS President Lisa Pruitt, Brigitte Bodenheimer Research Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, recently published an article titled “Rurality and Redistricting: California’s Proposition 50, Rural Identity, and Democratic Legitimacy” in the Maine Law Review. The article offers a ruralist critique of the hyper-partisan redistricting phenomenon initiated in mid-2025. The article focuses more specifically on how this redistricting has impacted rural communities in northern California. Pruitt calls for greater attention to—and protection of—rural places as communities of interest in redistricting practice.